Comments on: Ebooks on the way? http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/2007/11/19/ebooks-on-the-way/ About David Weinberger's book (May, 2007) and how we're pulling ourselves together now that we've blown ourselves to bits Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:37:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: T. Lord http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/2007/11/19/ebooks-on-the-way/comment-page-1/#comment-38581 T. Lord Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:43:00 +0000 http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/2007/11/19/ebooks-on-the-way/#comment-38581 The OLPC XO laptop looks like a great e-book! It's certainly not pocket-sized (not even as pretend-pocket-sized as the Kindle), but has a 7.5" screen which is daylight readable and 200dpi. Apropos: a little thing at OLPCnews.com on this same topic, featuring a video of Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive extolling the OLPC's big advantage to them -- high res means they can pretty much scan-and-forget to make new e-books: http://www.olpcnews.com/content/ebooks/internet_archive_laptop_ebook.html (Direct working link to youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpXplMK7OQA) Cheers, timothy The OLPC XO laptop looks like a great e-book!

It’s certainly not pocket-sized (not even as pretend-pocket-sized as the Kindle), but has a 7.5″ screen which is daylight readable and 200dpi.

Apropos: a little thing at OLPCnews.com on this same topic, featuring a video of Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive extolling the OLPC’s big advantage to them — high res means they can pretty much scan-and-forget to make new e-books:
http://www.olpcnews.com/content/ebooks/internet_archive_laptop_ebook.html

(Direct working link to youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpXplMK7OQA)

Cheers,

timothy

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